Fundamentals and systematics of law
- Functions of law, differentiation of law from custom, morality and ethics
- Bifurcation of law into public law and civil law (private law)
- Theory of sources of law (origin of law)
- Classifications of law (objective and subjective law/formal and substantive law) right/enforcing and yielding right)
- Overview of state and state organization law, including fundamental rights
- Overview of the law of the European Union (EU)
Introduction to private commercial law
- Overview of the legal areas of private commercial law
- Structure and systematics of the German Civil Code (BGB)
- Natural and legal persons
- Legal objects
- Legal transaction, declaration of intent, debt relationship
- Formation of contracts
- Right of representation
- Deadlines and dates
- Limitation
- Freedom of contract (private autonomy) and limits (obligation to contract)
- Overview of contractual obligations, with special emphasis on the law of sales contracts
- Overview of the performance problems (delay, impossibility)
- Defects of quality and title in sales contract law
- Overview of the law governing general terms and conditions (GTC)
- Overview of the contract types of the BGB
- Overview of the law of torts (tort law)
- Overview of producer and product responsibility
Methodology of jurisprudence
- Structure of the legal sentence
- Interpretation of the legal sentence
- Subsumption and syllogism
